During his speech, O'Rouke said that teachers should be paid enough money to live on and that Texas needs universal healthcare.

He also covered immigration and children separated from their parents at the border who are still in foster homes or being held in tent camps..

"We the people of this country, understanding that though that was the decision of one man this is really a democracy, the people are the government and the government is the people and everyday that this persists it is on every single one of us," O'Rourke said.